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Y1c Charles Porter III Fisk
Charles Porter Fisk III was born Oct. 27, 1911 in Hedgesville in central Montana to Agnes Eaman Fisk and Charles Porter Fisk II.
The family moved 110 miles east to Hysham in 1916 and operated a bakery there. They later raised sheep and farmed. In 1930 the town had 258 residents.
Charles III, the eldest of four children and the only son, graduated from Hysham High in 1931. He’d worked the previous summer as a farm laborer.
He first enlisted in the Navy in August 1931 and re-enlisted twice more. The last was on Aug. 5, 1941, when he signed up for four more years. By then he was a yeoman earning $96.60 a month.
Mr. Fisk was a yeoman and petty officer first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
There is a cenotaph in his memory at Forsyth Cemetery in Forsyth, Montana about 25 miles east of Hysham. His sister Bessie lived there.
Sources: The Great Falls (Montana) Tribune; The Billings (Montana) Gazette; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster rolls; Montana birth certificate; Stevenson Funeral Home of Forsyth, Montana.This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.